Slate and window cleaner



(No Model.)

J. B. DEEDS & W. MACK.

SLATE AND WINDOW ULEANER.

Patented Oct. 23, 1883.

WITNESSES N. PETERS. IholoLithnmpher. Wnshingk n. 0. cv

Nirno STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. DEEDS AND WILLIAM MACK,- OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

SLATE AND 'wmoow CLEANER.

Application filed May 4, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: I by natural flow the water therein toa strip or Be it known that we, JOHN B. DEEDs and block of felt, D, which is held between the WVILLIAMMA K, of TerraHaute, in the county converged sides, and which also serves to; of Vigo and State of Indiana, have invented strengthen the said sides, and prevents the certain new and useful Improvements in Slate felt strip from being forced inwardly. The Si and Window Cleaners; and we do hereby deheads at d at the narrow or bottom end are clare that the following is afull, clear, and eX- provided with a point or tooth, which, when act description of the invention, which will the felt has been fitted between the sides, are enable others skilled in the art to which it apbent into it and serve to retain and keep it in IO pertains to make and use the same, reference place. (See Fig. 2.)

' It will be obvious that this device may be made of an enlarged size, provided with a handle, and used to wash or cleanse windows.

The operation is apparent. The water or other fluid contained within the reservoir keeps the felt moist by capillary attraction, which is permitted by the small spacebetween V the metal flanges c 0. After having washed given hereinafter, and pointe out in the the slate or window, it is dried by the cloth or 20 claims. rag e on top of the fount. In the drawings hereunto annexed, Figure Having thus described our invention, what 1 is a perspective view of a fount or reservoir we claim-isembodying our improvements. Fig. 2 is a 1. The slate or window cleaner consisting of side elevation, and Fig. 3 a cross section the reservoir bent to form converging walls, 25 thereof. having secured at its top the bent longitudi- Reference being had to the letters marked nal strip B, which serves to hold the dryingthereon, A represents a reservoir for holding cloth, and provided with the metal flanges c 0 water or other fluid, and which is provided at or near the bottom, and with astrip or block with an inlet, a, for filling it, closed bya suitof felt held by teeth projecting from the end This invention has for its object toprovide 15 aneat and suitable device for scouring and drying slates or windows; and to this end it consists in the construction herein shown, and

of which a moremomplete description will be 0 able stopper or cork, Z). Extending longitudiheads, substantially as set forth.

nally across the top of said reservoirisa metal 2. The slate or window cleaner consisting of strip, B, which is so bent as to form two sides, the reservoir bent to form convergingwalls, between which is to be held a drying cloth having secured at its top the bent longitudior rag, e, of as many thicknesses as may be denal strip B, and provided with the metal 3 5 sired, and which can be readily removed when flanges c c at or near the bottom between the dirty-and worn, and a new one placed therein sides, substantially as described.

by drawing it tightly between the sides or In testimony that we claim the foregoing as p edges of the metal strips. It will be noticed our own we affix our signatures in presence of that the sides of the reservoir converge or two witnesses.

o incline toward each other at the bottom, and

somewhat above the bottom edge, between and within the sides, are secured longitudinally from end to end two metal flanges, c c, Witnesses: one flange overlapping the other and leaving H. O. MERITT,

5 a small space between them sufficient to feed HARRY DUNHAM. 

